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The Vulkan API Specification and related tools

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370 open issues indexed

Level-of-detail or "cone" tracing Open

Extension Feature Request Ray Tracing Resolving Inside Khronos

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1221 · 1 comment · 6 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 30, 2020
vkCreateMacOSSurfaceMVK is main thread only? Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1200 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 5, 2020
Opaque nature of depth buffers not sufficiently specified Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1192 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 22, 2020
No pipeline bind point in vkCmdPushConstants Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1189 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 20, 2020
rasterizerDiscardEnable and ignored parameters Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1184 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 17, 2020
Sanity of pointSizeGranularity and lineWidthGranularity Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1181 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 17, 2020
Blend factors and Ops should be a part of dynamic state. Open

Feature Request

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1172 · 6 comments · 4 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 2, 2020
Why VK_KHR_create_renderpass2 requires VK_KHR_multiview? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1161 · 11 comments · Opened Jan 14, 2020
Unclear blocking behavior in vkQueuePresentKHR Open

Resolving Inside Khronos System Integration

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1158 · 6 comments · Opened Jan 8, 2020
TOCTOU race condition on minImageExtent/maxImageExtent? Open

System Integration

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1144 · 13 comments · 9 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 23, 2019
Support for Float16 Images? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1140 · 12 comments · Opened Dec 17, 2019
VK_EXT_tooling_info wouldn't work in 1.0 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1138 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 10, 2019
Unclear corner cases about newer versions Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1097 · 4 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Nov 21, 2019
VUID-VkBindAccelerationStructureMemoryInfoNV-size-02595 should not apply to compacted acceleration structures Open

Ray Tracing

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1078 · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 30, 2019
Dynamic viewport/scissor states and static command buffers Open

Feature Request

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1038 · 9 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 26, 2019
Queue texel buffer dynamic indexing and texel buffer alignment requirements for VK_KHR_maintenance5 Open

Feature Request Resolving Inside Khronos

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1026 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 22, 2019
Pipeline stages confusion Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#1020 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 12, 2019
Inaccurate paragraph about descriptor pool exhaustion Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#988 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 28, 2019
VkQueueFlags from VkQueueFamilyProperties missing sanity requirements Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#984 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 19, 2019
pQueueFamilyIndices should be restricted to VkDeviceQueueCreateInfo Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#978 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 8, 2019
Make identifying extensions clear Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#970 · 2 comments · Opened May 21, 2019
Cube image specification clarification Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#967 · 4 comments · Opened May 15, 2019
Should there be VK_PRESENT_MODE_MAILBOX_RELAXED_KHR? Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#963 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2019
vkCreate* runtime errors and non-VK_NULL_HANDLE result pointers Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#956 · Opened Apr 18, 2019
Unnecessarily confusing Image\Buffer support Open

Feature Request Resolving Inside Khronos

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#941 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 11, 2019
Suspicious VkMemoryRequirements inconsistency between image and buffer flags Open

Resolving Inside Khronos

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#940 · Opened Mar 11, 2019
A proposed alternative model for the registry Open

Feature Request

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#931 · 16 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 24, 2019
Semantic tagging of pointer type for struct members Open

Feature Request

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#930 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 24, 2019
Clarify ASTC support Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#926 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 20, 2019
maxColorAttachments and maxFragmentOutputAttachments restrictions Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#913 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 4, 2019
Does VK_EXT_inline_uniform_block interact with VK_EXT_scalar_block_layout? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#910 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 29, 2019
64 b and array Fragment output Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#902 · 10 comments · Opened Jan 23, 2019
VK_ATTACHMENT_LOAD_OP_DONT_CARE access mask missing `READ`? Open

Resolving Inside Khronos

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#895 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 14, 2019
Extension for vertex shading and input (uint8 index, topology, barycentrics)? Open

Extension Feature Request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#878 · 22 comments · Opened Dec 12, 2018
Ambiguity about whether VkExternalMemoryImageCreateInfo and VkExternalMemoryBufferCreateInfo are needed when exporting memory Open

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#867 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 28, 2018
Device matching by LUID not specified Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#866 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 24, 2018
Implicit same-parent VUs incorrect Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#863 · Opened Nov 21, 2018
Ambiguous Unsupported Limit Open

Resolving Inside Khronos

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#832 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 22, 2018
vkCreateSwapchainKHR returns unexpected error code Open

System Integration

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#828 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · 2 assignees · Opened Oct 15, 2018
Extension compatibility & provisional Open

Resolving Inside Khronos

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#807 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 26, 2018
External synchronization on command buffer reset Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#802 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 18, 2018
VkImageSubresourceRange depth\stencil aspectMask underrestricted Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#714 · Opened May 7, 2018
Link to parameter types from [source] blocks Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#697 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2018
vk.xml's `define` category no longer restricted to actual #defines Open

Feature Request Registry Resolving Inside Khronos

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#679 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 16, 2018
[Specification] Missing sanity requirements for VkImageFormatProperties Open

Resolving Inside Khronos

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#672 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 6, 2018
Maintenance1\1.1 compatibility Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#639 · 13 comments · Opened Dec 10, 2017
vkCreateSwapChainKHR does not allow passing image creation flags (eg. VK_IMAGE_CREATE_MUTABLE_FORMAT_BIT) Open

System Integration

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#619 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 17, 2017
how to reliably determine if a function parameter is an in, inout, out argument in vk.xml? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#610 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 6, 2017
Accompanying destruction functions are not easily accessible in the spec Open

Ecosystem (Ref Pages) Feature Request Resolving Inside Khronos

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#608 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 5, 2017
Clarify behavior of a fence after vkQueuePresentKHR() Open

Resolving Inside Khronos System Integration

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs#595 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 20, 2017

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